1. Anything but 9 to 5. This is the article that came-up in our discussion of scheduling issues at Starbucks, McDonalds, etc. It is from mid-August, but well worth reading.

2. Fast Food Workers and a New Form of Labor Activism. This fairly long piece from the New Yorker also got mentioned. It came out about a week ago and has been getting a lot of attention. It is one of the more positive things you will find written in mainstream media about new labor activity.

7.[Against the Grain Radio podcast] Social Movements After Occupy, featuring Arun Gupta (and also covered in his article on same at Counter Punch). I know we don’t like it when the media refers to Occupy in the past tense, but this is a very astute critique of the climate march, crediting it as an overall good thing, but sharply castigating it for being so denuded as to avoid mentioning an enemy or in anyway connect climate change to economic dynamics. Maybe we should attend the march with signs saying “It’s Finance Capitalism, Stupid.”